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Nick Seeley, Caroline Kepnes, Emma Viskic and Michael Collins line up for an arresting First Time Offenders session, offering a taste of their dangerous new works as the Festival Club is plunged into darkness
Brisbane Writers Festival
2016 Highlights
Reading
BWF First Offenders
Nick Seeley
Nick Seeley is an international journalist who got his start in Cambodia, and has spent more than a decade reporting from the Middle East. He is the author of the nonfiction Kindle Single A Syrian Wedding, about life in a refugee camp in Jordan, and the novel Cambodia Noir. Originally from Fairfax, Virginia, Seeley studied theatre before going into journalism, and has written numerous plays and screenplays, appeared in small roles in several films, and run a small non-profit theatre company in Amman. He currently lives in permanent transit.
Caroline Kepnes
Caroline Kepnes is an American journalist, screenwriter and author who has been a TV extra, a TV and film critic forEntertainment Weekly and Yahoo, and a writer of one-hour TV dramas for teens. Her debut psychological thriller, You, was hailed by Stephen King as “totally original”. She continues the story of Joe Goldberg, an intelligent and charming murderer, in the sequel, Hidden Bodies. She is thrilled to be visiting Australia for the first time.
Michael Collins
Michael Collins was born in 1964. He was educated in Belfast, Dublin and Chicago. His short stories have been awarded the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Award in Ireland and the Pushcart Prize in America, and his novel The Keepers of Truth was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the International IMPAC literary award. His latest novel is The Death of All Things Seen (July 2016).
Emma Viskic
Emma Viskic is a professional musician and author of the critically acclaimed 2015 crime novel, Resurrection Bay. She has won two of Australia’s premier crime fiction short story awards: the Ned Kelly S. D Harvey Award, and the New England Thunderbolt Prize. Her short-form fiction has appeared in Review of Australian Fiction and Award Winning Australian Writing 2014 and 2015. She lives in Melbourne and divides her time between writing, performing and teaching.